Architectural engineer with international fame Renzo piano He grew up in Italy watching his father, a local creator, working on construction sites, and was fascinated by his father’s attractiveness towards exhausting materials – concrete, stone and brick. “As usual, you get bigger, you want to do the opposite of your father,” he said. “My father made heavy buildings; I have always tried to make me a light.” I was inspired by his homeland, a water -based city: “The port is a magic place where everything flies.” The piano spent his career in an attempt to restore this feeling of magic in his designs. He recently joined us to discuss his magic with inception, and his obsession with seizing him in his work. He said that the books were one of his “comrades” in this endeavor, while highlighting four effects exceptionally. His comments were edited and intensified.
On the nature of things
Written by Titus Lukritius Carrus
Lucretius, in an epic poem since the first century, described the way in which the material world is made up of many small particles, or “primary bodies”. Gloom to the atoms before it is officially discovered, writing:
Lucretius was a philosopher and poet, but he was not a scientist. However, he found a way to discuss the issue, to put it more than we can see and touch. It is an incredible book, and requires a certain kind of lightness – lightness of the mind.
idiot
By fyodor dostoevsky
To be a good origin, you must have three things. The first two are somewhat easier: it must be very pragmatic in order to make solid structures that stand, and they should be human, because the places you create are for people. Third, beauty, more difficult. In my mother tongue, Italian, the word “beautiful” –Billo– It is also the word “good”. In the movie “The Idiot”, Prince Myshkin, the title of the title, says, “Beauty will save the world.” It does not only mean what you can see; It also indicates good. It is a very important note. Other characters in the book – which follows Prince Mishkin moving life within Russian society – is basically, similar to the way people assume that beauty is trivial. No right. Dostoyevsky knew exactly what he was doing; You can say that, like Prince Mishkin, was enlightened.
Baron
By Italo Calvino
I spent some time with ITALO CALVINO. He visited me on the construction site of the Bombido Center, in Paris, took it and around the structure. His book “The Barin in the Trees”, which he recently published, reminded me because it is a story about adventure above Earth. He focuses on a young boy from a noble family, tired of his life, ascending the large oak tree outside his home, and pledged to stay there forever. He spends the rest of his days moving from tree to tree; He befriends thieves of fruit and falls in love, all of this while he did not touch the Earth. It is a magic book, a metaphor for flying. When I design buildings, such as shad, in London, I create it so that, like the baron, they can fly.
The unbearable lightness of existence
Written by Milan Conda
There is a weight in life – for all the things we have to do day after day. You have to pay bills. You have to deal with diseases. You have to manage your relationships with family members. This book, which is more than one sequence, picks up more than a story, the way you are the sum of your responsibilities and experiences.
He reminds me of the short poem “Ethaka”, written by CP Cavafy, which revolves around the Odysseus trip to the house. CAVAFY bids odesseus long journey “full of adventure, full of discovery”. ITHACA is not what matters – Kafafi warns that Odysseus may not be happy after his arrival – it’s the way there. Kundra and Cavafy transmits something deep: life is nothing more than a trip, an idea that can serve as a kind of antidote to the burdens of living.
